About neighbours shouting all the time in the garden?

[sunshinedaisydo]

I know it's summer and I'm not bothered about normal garden noise - lawn mowers, springs on a trampoline, BBQs and people talking to each other appropriate for the distance away they are (like 2 feet) but my neighbours are driving us up the wall.

They're a blended family so at times there's 5 or 6 children I think. They just shout ALL. THE. TIME. I don't mean arguing or anything, it's all very pleasant but every thing that comes out of any of their mouths is in a shouting voice. We're sitting in our living room and we've heard everything (because they've f-ing shouted about it) from the menu, likes and dislikes, drinks, what's cooked, plans that evening etc. I feel like I'm sat in the middle in their garden. It's so weird.

Why do people shout at each other when they're 2 feet away.....? What am I missing here??

(Should of said, it's only in the garden. Detached house so never hear noise from the house or anything thankfully)

I feel your pain. Next door has a screamer child, who screams when she's happy, sad, annoyed, going to bed, having breakfast, all the time. She's school age, so not a baby and it drives me nuts.

Live in a block of flats and my neighbour and ALL her family descend like a flock of seagulls any time the weather is good. Shrieking and shouting and causing a racket right outside my windows. Same in the stairwell. Some people just have no consideration for their neighbours

My next door but one sit out drinking in garden around 5 nights a week in summer. Every week.

They get louder and louder and more sweaty as the night progresses. The mother in law who lives there is particularly vile. She chain smokes so theres a constant cloud of smoke and she swears every 3rd word. Even when her toddler grandkids are in the garden, who by the way, swear frequently now themselves.

Our estate is lovely generally but they really bring it down lol.

There's a range of ages here so lots of (shouted) teenager angst and drama, (shouted) younger kids messing about but the parents are just as bad, (shouting) when food is ready, what food people want, what they're doing that day etc. Even the laughing in shouted. It's so wired. Nothing angry or arguments, it's all very jovial but SO LOUD.

I've never heard anything like it. It's like they think they have a force field around them and no one can hear or something!

I also feel your pain, except here it's the Mum who bellows everything. The children are pretty good and will be happily playing in the garden, normal noise level, with the mum also out in the garden bellowing do this, do that, go inside, stop that etc. I sometimes want to yell over the fence to the woman "YOU go inside and give your children and me some peace and quiet!"

Our relatively new neighbours are loud too she’s like a fog horn in the garden talking to her small child . Not shouting but encouraging fog horn levels. ‘Oh well done ‘ if child catches a ball at 120 decibels

Every now and again you can tell people are talking at normal volume as you can hear talking etc but not really what is being said. But 80% is shouted I'd say. I wouldn't mind so much if there was an occasional 'there's no need to shout' or ' let's just try and keep our voices down a bit' from the parents but nothing. Just breeding more inconsiderate people.

Sweary not sweaty ha

@Frankola that was a Freudian slip considering how hot its been (lives not far from tropical Cambridge)

We get this too. Four energetic children under 10, small flat, no outdoor space. The mum looks knackered all the time but the parents rarely take the children out even though there’s a playground off the next street. I feel sorry for them, they’re nice people but very LOUD.

I feel for you, as a mum to two naturally loud (but lovely) children who even shout during normal conversation. They literally just don't realise. It drives me nuts and I'm constantly saying ssshhh! Which I hate.

They'll shout me from the garden when I'm in the house. It must really annoy my neighbours.

Mind you, one of them plays loud music as soon as the suns out, so he can feck off.

Soosiesoo** - at least you recognise it! It'll probably sink in with your children eventually. I'm less bothered about younger children actually as they are naturally loud and be able to play etc. The teenagers shouting and cackling is really irritating and the adults shouting at them from one side of the garden about where such and such is and them shouting back is so annoying!

I've told DH we're moving after this weekend. Small close of 8 houses in supposedly quiet village. One NDN has used a jet wash for nearly 3 hours in a row; house opposite have gone on holiday leaving a skip across their drive and their cars parked out on the road so no one else can park; and other NDN's have had visitors for the weekend and sat in their back garden laughing and drinking until gone 1am. So we've had to have windows shut in this bloody heat.

I'm literally like a bag of adders tonight................. and looking at remote houses on Rightmove.

Op have you overheard anything personal that you could repeat back to them? I’m in a flat and did this with a loud neighbor.

Generally I agree, it’s weird but also sad that there’s nowhere for peace and quiet, I always thought a detached house would be a dream before I joined MN!

Feel your pain. We live next door to nice people but they have two girls age 5 and 7 and they are screamers. Whatever the situation, happy, sad, playing, just talking. I'm sympathetic as a mum to two younger girls myself - little girls are shrill sometimes. But my god I wish they'd tell them to pipe down a bit. Especially when they let them play in the garden until 10pm and I'm trying to sleep with my window open because it's too damn hot otherwise.

I'm finding my neighbour hard as feel he is too intolerant, he has no kids and lives in lala land. Living with a teenager means the occasional rant unless your not human.

I feel your pain .my neighbour has teenage daughters who are never away from the house even though they both live with their boyfriends. From 9 till 7 everyday they sit in the house and make so much noise. It sounds like a herd of elephants running around . I’ve asked my boss if I can go back to the office as it’s driving me mad.

You could try embarrassing them and let them know somehow you can hear everything. So if one of them hates a particular food, take it round to them? Or if it is anything they would be mortified others knowing about, mention it to them?

Zombie

Oh God, it’s awful, isn’t it? next door have two little girls who just scream all the time. I can’t bear to go out in my garden at all in the summer - the shrieking is just constant. Then the father comes home and plays loud music in the garden. They’ve also bought a hot tub which sounds like a bloody hovercraft.